Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-10
TELEGRAPHIc BREYITlEs.
DOMESTIC.

John Roach is daily growing weaker.
The river and harbor bill was reported to
to the House on Saturday.
Mary Harlan died on Saturday at Louis
vile, having starved herself to death.
The conferees on the electoral count bill
have practically reached an agreement.
Anew book by Blaine. entitled Speeches
and Diplomatic Papers, will soon be pub
lished.
The situation in regard to the coal-hand
lers' strikes in Pennsylvania is gradually
growing worse.
Two railroad officials have been fined $50
each at New Haven, Conn.,, for blacklisting
a workingman.
The striking stevedores in New York pre-
vented the departure of the Lydian Mon
arch for London.
Kuhn. Leob G. Co., of New York, must
pay the Oregon and Transconilnental$ lOO,-
600 for converting collateral.
Brigadier-General Leutz was arrested at
Pittsfeld, Mass, charged with attempting to
kill his wife and commit suicide.
A large amount of money and valuable
papers were found in the house of the
dead miser, Joseph Perry, in Philadelphia.
T.G. CluYerius, the murderer of Lillian
Madison, who is to be hanged at Rich
mond, Va, in few days, is writing his
autobiography.
THE evidence at the Coroner's inquest
shows neglect of duty on the part of the
railroad hands at the time of the Republic,
(O.) disaster last Tuesday.
Brevet Brigadier- General Thomas A.
Duncan, U. S. A, retired in 1878. died on
Saturday afternoon, after short illness, at
his residence in Louisville.
The ship Elizabeth, of Hamburg, was
wrecked off Cape Henry. Va, on Saturday,
and twenty lives were lost, including five
members of the hfe-saving crew.
The shops of the Ohio Southern Rail
road at Springfield were burned on Satur-
day. Six locomotives, two cars and valu-
able machinery and buildings were de-
stroyed. Loss, $4,000; fully insured
FOREIGN
Robert Browning's health is improving.
The British Cabinet crisis is still un-
settled.
The Queensberry divorce suit has not
caused a sensation in London.
There is prospect of peaceful settle
ment of the Bulgarian question.
Tennyson telegraphed his thanks to
Gladstone for praising his new poem.
A strike of 10000 miners in Northum-
berland, Eng, is imminent over dispute
about wages.
The proposed conference between Glad
stone and Chamberlain may lead to the
reunion of the Liberal party.
A terrible snow storm has prevailed
throughout the midland counties in Eng
land. Much loss of life is feared.
The Catholic Armenia Patriarch is going
from. Constantinople TO Rome as the bearer
of the Sultan's present of a diamond ring
for the Pope and decorations for the Car
dipals.
The Vatican has received communica-
ton from France proposing to maintain
good relations on the basis of a concordat
literally interpreted The Vatican does
not approve the proposals, and will soon
explain its views formally and at length to
France.
PACIFIC COAST.
Six Mormon elders have been sent to
prison for lawbreaking at Ogden.
Frank Wood, boy, has again been held
for the killing of a playmate named Patton,
near Healdsburg.
An unsuccessful attempt was made on
Saturday to get the San Francisco Postoffice
bill up in the Senate.
After April 1st pensioners residing in
Montana and Wyoming will be paid at the
San Francisco agency.
There is some opposition to the confirm
alton of Judge Ross as Judge of the Ju-
dicial District of Southern California.
The Board of Trade of Eureka has petit
toned for an appropriation of 100000 for
the Improvement of Humboldt harbor.
A syndicate of capitalists has paid a
million dollars for water-power, canals,
etc, at Oregon City, on the Willamette
river
William Johnson was sho. and instantly
killed by Jerry Harrel at Tulare City Fri
day night. Seven persons are held for COM
plicity.
1t is reported by the officers that the
Tombstone Mill and Mining Company,
which has been closed down for several
months, will resume operations on the 18th
instant